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Ted Cruz: “There would have been an automatic $4 trillion tax increase…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 09:18

So what did we do in that bill? Well, we extended the Trump tax cuts. We made them permanent. That was a huge deal. If we hadn't acted, There would have been an automatic $4 trillion tax increase at the end of the year [without the extension]. We passed new tax cuts like no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. That's a big deal. (09:18–09:25)

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Asserts that without the extension of the Trump tax cuts, there would have been a $4 trillion tax increase.

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